KILL YELLOW JACKETS NEST (ground bees)WITHOUT POISON OR CHEMICALS...IT ACTUALLY WORKS!

Today's Vlog has us at my neighbor's house....he's got a nest of pesky Yellow Jackets, also called hornets, wasps or ground bees. I'm gonna take you and show you an eco friendly way to kill those pesky and dangerous stinging insects without chemicals, poisons or gasoline/diesel!! Hope ya learn something

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[SpiritBear]

You forgot about the queen. The queen stays in the hive, she doesn't come out, she stays in there and does nothing buy lay eggs. Those eggs hatch into grubs, and eventually grow into adult wasps. As long as the queen is in there laying eggs, that wasp nest is always going to be a problem. You have to kill her as well. Once that is done, the hive can't exist any more.
Bees, wasps and hornets don't come out at night because they can't see in the dark. You can use that to your advantage. Get a soap dispenser meant for garden hoses. Put ordinary dish soap in it. At night when the wasps are in the hive, place the nozzle of the hose as far down in the hive entrance as you can get it. Turn on the hose, not full blast, but fairly strong stream. The water will pick up the soap and flood the hive with soapy water. The wasps will drown and the soapy water will also kill the eggs and larvae. The queen will drown too. You need the soap because the soap breaks down the waxy coating the wasps have on their body that keeps water out of their exoskeleton and spiracles.
Insects don't breathe through their face like mammals and reptiles do. They have a series of holes in their abdomen called spiracles. The waxy coating on their bodies makes any water they encounter bead up and roll off like car wax does for cars. But, if you break down that coating, water will get sucked into their spiracles and they drown.
The water is also cold and wasps don't like to be cold, they get stiff and can't move. So that, with all the water and soap will help wipe out the hive.
Soap dispenser for a garden hose.

[HeidiPyke]

Watching this while nursing a direct shot to my forehead after I mowed right into the damn hive. Got wasp killer spray and went back out only to come running in with one stinging the shit out of my inner thighs. Now I’m sitting here getting a headache from the gasoline fumes. I need a beer!

[ThriMure]

It was during a hot summer month, circa 1980. I lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. I don't remember how I discovered it, but there was a yellow jacket nest at the rear of my house, about 15 feet off to the right side. Until this nest was found, I thought all bee-like creatures built nests which hung from, well, something off of the ground. Bottom line? I just didn't begin to have a clue about what to do to eliminate this threat. My intuition was to get a gallon of gasoline and pour it down the hole, but not only was that a potential fire hazard, even if I pulled it off without a glitch, that portion of ground would become a bio-hazard. I didn't think any bug killer spray would work either, plus it was a bio-hazard, too. I waited a few days to do research before taking any action. Then it came to me, a solution which was incredibly simple, super cheap and had zero environmental impact. I call it...


MY 3-STEP PLAN: Based on my observation that all bees, hornets and yellow jackets are totally inactive in the darkness and coolness of night.


1. Before doing anything, wait at least an hour after dark to be certain the yellow jackets are in their nest. This can be verified by flashlight inspection. (I checked, and there was zero activity)
2. Gather your 4 largest pots, fill them with water and heat them on the stove until the water is at a rolling boil.
2-A. This really is not a step, but I wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt as an emotional insurance policy and for peace of mind. (turns out, I could have been butt-naked;-)
3. With an assistant shining a flashlight on the ground entrance to the yellow jacket nest, I dumped the largest pot of boiling water down it as fast as I could, continuing with the other pots, repeating the process one more round.


RESULTS:
There was not a sign of yellow jacket life at any time during my extermination procedure, not the next morning, not a week or even a month later.


I now live in Olympia, Washington. About 4 years ago I found a yellow jacket nest at the edge of my front porch, which is almost at ground level. I followed the same plan I used in 1980 with the same results.


Hope this helps!

[gregszful]

Zapping quickly STOPS when there are too many shorts in the mesh. This swatter is not designed for multiple bugs.

[chadwilken]

Just a heads up, some nests have more than one opening. So you need to be mindful of that.

[dotcassilles]

If bitten/stung by any insect wash the bite and the surrounding area with warm soapy water. Wasps use pheromones that they spray into the air and around where they bite to communicate with other wasps and sound the alarm that they are in trouble. The pheromone will stay in the environment for some time, including around the sites of any bites on your skin. Soapy water breaks down the pheromone. I learnt this from the hospital, after being bit by ( what we in Australia call) a European Wasp(also known as a German wasp or German yellow jacket). It made my foot go black and swollen for about a week and felt like someone had burnt me with a match or cigarette lighter.

[lwmorgan]

I just noticed a hole in my yard just a little bigger than the one you were dealing with but never saw any activity while mowing, until yesterday. Once I saw the little zappers going in and out I got the water hose and started filling the hole up with water while keeping my foot over the hole so none of them could get out. I forgot about the one's who wanted to get in so as I sprayed them with water while keeping mt foot over the hole. I could finish them off while they were on the ground but more and more showed up and once I removed my foot from the hole all hell broke lose. I got to the garage and in the house but one of them got under my shirt and stung me 3 times before I could take him out. I just happened to have some Sting Kill, I saw it used on a Coyote Peterson video once, and it really helped the stinging and burning pain. I also have one of those electric fly zappers so I went back out and covered the hole while trying to hold the button and got stung 3 more times, got out the Sting Kill again. I'm gonna take a piece of window screen and cover the hole when it's dark, put bricks around the edges to keep the screen in place, pour in some Dawn dish soap and add water. That should take care of the Taliban Yellow Jackets. Loved the video, didn't realize killing yellow jackets could be so funny.

[kbobdonahue]

They're wasps, not bees, but anyway, what do I know so long as they

[kamikazeyamamoto]

Neighbor:
"What's that smell?"
Guy making video:
"The smell of...victory."

[GearsandCrosses]

I admire this guys non chemical approach and ingenuity. In the past, after being chased into my house by a swarm and getting stung about 8+ times I wasn't so compassionate. One sting was between the eyes! I have used gas to kill them in the past with mixed results. Now I use about a cup of Malathion (straight up not diluted) down the hole at night while wearing vinyl gloves. I have a 100% success rate with this method. I know this a chemical method but when you see how aggressive Yellow jackets are in real life you want them gone yesterday. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. If I would have been trapped by that nest I probably would have died. No joke...

[Dobviews]

During day, mark your wasp nest with a small flag. At night use a bucket and screen. Place screen over hole, drop dry ice over top of screen and place bucket upside down trapping the CO². In morning, flip bucket. End of bees.

[MarcusRefusius]

Here in the Southern Sierra we call them Meat Bees. And they are incredibly aggressive. I remember as a kid in Ohio, we called them Yellow Jackets and they seemed more interested in Fruit. I watched Meat Bees here strip a Bat down to a Skeleton in a very short time. Some friends operate a Pack Station in Kings Canyon and they lost a Horse to them years ago. Stepped on a Nest and got so many stings it died. It seems like some years they are a lot worse than others. My friends have a very good Restaurant and sometimes the Meat Bees make it practically impossible to eat out on their deck. Fun Video. Cheers.

[russellcowher]

I like the electric fly swatter idea, and I may use a modified version of that to protect my peach trees this year. Now something I've been using for the last 25 years is liquid wisk or tide laundry detergent. You use it in any hand sprayer bottle that shoots a solid stream of liquid. I thin it with water, " I don't know the ratio", I just make it thin enough that it will just function in my particular spray bottle. This is absolutely deadly to any type of insect I've used it on. It will knock wasps right out of the air. I believe it litterally degreases them to death. It destroys their nests too, makes them inhabitable. And one of the best parts of it, it is dirt cheap compared to most anything else I've tried!

[LitoGeorge]

Hope this helps (posting in several vids because you all have been helpful to me) - I wanted a non toxic (as possible) solution to wasps/ yellow jackets. My children have been stung terribly by these things, so it was my turn to deal with it. I found their location through keen observation - just watching insects come and go and found a large concentration of them going into the ground, which was home for them. I was inclined to use gas, but then learned 1litre is enough to poison 1Million litres of ground water. No bueno. So I used regular tap water and four kinds of soaps: dish, a liberal sprinkling of "Comet", 3 dishwashing machine dissolvable pouches and 2 scoops of borax/soap flakes. Suffice to say there was enough bubbles for Africa. I carried a very large bucket of water (half a metal full size trash can worth) to the location, far away from my home. It was heavy going as I am fat. Tip: use a stout stick to help with the digging in of the handle by carrying the stick under the handle. I went at 9pm on late summer night. It was dark out. Using my head flashlight, I located the hole. There were dozens of them still buzzing around the hole. I was dead afraid having been stung by these before. I decided to forgo the funnel, steel wool as some advised. The hole was just far too big. I poured the water and the foam overwhelmed them. I poured about half quickly, then calmed down and poured till it soaked into the hole. Observed for a second, then got chicken and poured more in spurts, until it was all gone. I was shocked at the size of the things guarding the entrance at night. These were easily half as long as my tip of thumb to thumb joint. Not as thick obviously, but seriously large. Yellow jackets on kind of steroids. I saw them all on the surface completely motionless (I read the soap dissolves their wax, filling their spiracles, which drowns them instantly). After all was poured, I waited ten seconds at the hole and saw nothing come out. I was still scared in case there may be workers still coming back to the nest. I got out of there and will go look at it tomorrow/next day and report back if there is interest.

[diggdogg]

Best way I found to get rid of yellow jackets.
If you know where the nest is. Get a wet/dry shopvac, put a couple inches of water in it with dish detergent. Set the nozzle of the vacuum hose right next to the entrance. Leave it for a few hours and you will have a shopvac full of hornet soup

[JoePina]

Awesome video. Next time maybe wear long sleeves and long pants with boots and gloves when approaching the nest. That looked like a huge one!

[oruwatching]

Ran into a hive 2 weeks ago cutting trees, 18 stings! My wife thought me running and yelling was the funniest thing she has seen in a long time.

[SpicySteve-tzso]

I had a similar problem where they built a nest through a hole in one of the cinder blocks in my garage. I took a shop-vac and taped an 8-foot long piece of 1" PVC to the end of the vac hose and propped it next to the hole. Got the yellow jackets coming and going. Took a few hours but it was very effective.

[BobOConor]

For rock wall yellowjacket nests (vertical entrances) I've taken out two by stuffing their entry holes with regular water ice. At night, of course. This required me to revisit and refresh with ice more than once, as the yellowjackets will melt the ice by increasing activity (and thus their body heat), but individual yellowjackets will run out of energy before long, and eventually the nests ran out of yellowjackets.

[mothman-jzug]

Gasoline fumes are heavier than air, so when you pour in the entrance to the nest, the fumes go down. This is very important. Stick funnel in hole, pour gasoline from small container into funnel. Toss container aside and kick funnel away. Place shoe sole over hole for 30 seconds or so. Move foot aside, light 'er up. Burns out entire nest. Has never failed to work 100%.